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Amazon files patent suit against Discovery

Technology / Business

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

US online retail giant Amazon has filed a lawsuit against Discovery Communications alleging it infringed four of Amazon's e-commerce patents, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.


Does anti-piracy software on video games open security risks on users' computers?

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientist Alex Halderman wants to know if antipiracy software built into Spore and other video games makes computers more vulnerable to hackers. To find out, he might have to break the law.


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Apple sued for stifling iPod tricks

Technology / Business

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 5

Internet rights champions have accused Apple of stifling free speech by bullying OdioWorks into ending online sharing of ways to get iPods to work with music websites other than iTunes.


Changes to Apple's iTunes prices take effect (AP)

Changes to Apple's iTunes prices take effect

Technology / Internet

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The era of one-price-fits-all-songs on iTunes came to an end Tuesday as Apple Inc., the Internet's dominant digital music retailer, began selling some of its most-downloaded songs for $1.29 apiece.





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Deadline arrives in Google book-scan deal (AP)

Deadline in Google book deal extended to Friday

Technology / Internet

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Google says it needs until Friday to come up with a new proposal that would give it the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books.


Apple's restriction-free music downloads create pause

Technology / Other

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 9

When Apple Inc. announced in January that it would sell restriction-free music files, that was supposed to mean consumers could buy songs and play them on the portable gadget of their choice.


'N-variant' microchips could protect intellectual property, enable new services

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 11, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Rice University computer engineers have created a way to design integrated circuits that can contain many multiple selves. The chips can assume one identify or a subset of identities at a time, depending on the user's needs. ...


HP, Amazon to sell paperback versions of e-books

Technology / Internet

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Some of technology's best-known companies are betting there's pent-up demand for on-demand books.


In Brief: Cup matches part of mobile TV field trials

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 09, 2006 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A mobile television system developed by STMicroelectronics will undergo field trials in Germany during the World Cup soccer tournament that begins Friday.


Removing user constraints from digital rights management

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 11, 2008 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bridging the often-large gap between the commercial imperatives of digital content providers and the requirements of users who buy their content has been achieved by a team of European researchers.


IBM launches water-management services operation (AP)

IBM launches water-management services operation

Technology / Business

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- IBM Corp. wants to get really deep into water.


France approves controversial iTunes bill

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created Mar 21, 2006 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The lower house of the French Parliament approved Tuesday the controversial digital copyright bill in a vote of 296-193.


Apple's bid to end music piracy protection may signal end to copyright system

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 08, 2007 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple Computers, has issued a challenge to the music industry, saying Apple would support an open online music marketplace if the four-largest music companies would drop the use of digital-rights ...


Why pay when you can copy for free?

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New empirical research identifies successful strategies for the exploitation of television formats. Television formats such as X-Factor or Britain's Got Talent are extremely popular with audiences. Over the last decade, the ...



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